Good Deeds for the Oppressed

Monday, June 29, 2015
Job 29:7-17 KJV

7 When I went out to the gate through the city, [when] I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard [me], then it blessed me; and when the eye saw [me], it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and [him that had] none to help him. 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet [was] I to the lame. 16 I [was] a father to the poor: and the cause [which] I knew not I searched out. 17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) How did people treat Job before calamity befell him? (v.7-11)
2) How did people who heard Job and saw him respond to him before disaster struck his life? (v.12)
3) What did Job do before suffering hardship? (v.13-17)  

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Have you, or anyone else you know, suffered tragic losses after living to serve the Lord's people?

LIFE LESSONS
5) The Lord allows "good" people to endure tragic situations to prove their character.